FreeBSD v. Linux

logic1

Taken from /.

FreeBSD and Linux--This time with the new Linux VM. His Apache "results show that Linux is better at handling I/O cache than FreeBSD, and that FreeBSD is more efficient at building up and tearing down processes.

http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1794/byt20011107s0001/1112_moshe.html

.logic.

moist

I know this was just an impartial "review not a benchmark" as he puts it, however...
I wonder how much he knows about tuning these systems, the default FreeBSD is rather sluggish
(yet solid )

Quoting article
I also increased the maxusers value. This file sets the size of a number of important
system tables. Setting maxusers to 4 lets you have up to 84 simultaneous processes,
which is hardly enough for today's busy servers. I increased this value to 20.

I don't know where he got the "increased to 20" from, the default is 32.
I would say that seriously hamperd the FreeBSD box, considering he had a gigabit ethernet card in there.
Even with MAXUSERS at 256 they recomend that you increase NMBCLUSTERS and a few other things if you are doing lots of network stuff.

Snaggle

He also pitches the latest Linux kernel against a 7 month old FreeBSD release.

I also find it hard to imagine how being able to serve the same small web page faster when repeated implies a better I/O cache.